Data backup is only a tiny fraction of disaster recovery scenarios. Cold or even hot standby systems in remote data centers are somewhere between best practice and mandatory dependeing on county and business branch. A local (
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon, visible at the scale of millennia, centuries, decades, and years. It applies over several orders of magnitude of violence, from genocide to war to rioting to homicide to the treatment of children and animals. And it appears to be a worldwide trend, though not a homogeneous one.
It is true that the "rest of the world" is not living in absolut peace. It is also true that the human race has never been as peaceful as it is today. And to add another meaningless anecdote: In some countries the imbeciles that lust for war even have to resort to fighting war on plants and abstract concepts to get their fix.
Stop saying that there is a mass extinction going on. That's not just a lie, but an absurd lie and one that put actual mass extinction events to shame.
Current extinction rates are pretty hard to meassure. We don't even know for sure how many species there are on earth. Our best guess / estimation is that the present rate of extinction is somewhere between 70 and 700 species per year. The fossil records of the 5 previous mass extinctions suggest that this rate ist comparable to these mass extinction (we don't know the extinction rate of these any better than we can guess the current rate).
Extinction happens every day, for one reason or another. Some we caused, and that's right. but do you really think we're the only species to extinguish one, or two, or a hundred species?
Background extinction happens at rate of 1 to 10 species are year; that is at most one species per month, not "every day". More details can be found at http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html. You'd be suprised!
If McCain had prevailed the Democrats would have been an opposition against the erroding of civil liberties. I'm not convinced that a McCain preidency would really have been worse.
Dark Energy is the repulsive force that they speculate is causing us to drift apart
While technically true, that's kind of a wag the dog view of the universe. We observe that all the other galaxys are not only flying away from us, they are getting faster. According to our current understanding of nature this acceleration must be caused by some kind of force and this force must be "fed" by some kind of energy. We call this energy "dark energy". It's not a speculation that dark energy causes the acceleration, it is the definition of the phrase "dark energy".
Dark Matter is about 100% certain, but Dark Energy is closer still to a hypothesis.
The situations for dark matter and dark energy are practically the same. The visible matter doesn't cause enough gravity to hold galaxys together. Again, according to our current understanding of nature there must be another source of gravity other than visible matter. We call this source of gravity "dark matter".
Both, dark matter and dark energy are "speculative" in the same way. Both start with relativity as our current model of gravity. We know that relativity is wrong, i..e. it's predicition contradict observations but it's the best model we got so far. If somebody comes up with a better model for gravity than relativity and that new model doesn't require dark energy or dark matter to make correct predicitions then we can remove both from our models.
Suspicious activity are common calls. [...] Asking someone what they are doing there is completely legal. Period. End of discussion. The fact you imagine that is somehow a sign of wrong doing is beyond insane.
Walking down the street while black is completely legal. Period. End of discussion. The fact you imagine that is somehow a sign of wrong doing is beyond insane.
Talk about reality distortion field set to maximum.
Rival gang implies that the guy who was shot is a gang member himself. That must be true because he was black and all black kids are gang members, right?
Nulla poena sine lege. I wasn't arguing that. I was just nitpicking that the particular consequence you mentioned ("If you're a company and you do exactly the same thing but nothing goes wrong you're excused from this law.") is in fact not a bad thing at all.
Right. Why in Gods name shouldn't they kill peopole if it makes them money? Killing people to make more money is just a good business decision and everyone who doesn't kill people for money is a stupid communist hippie nazi, right?
So you're saying the poor guy just has no other choice than to rape woman, punsh them in the face, enslave them, torture them, and rent them out to other victims of society?
Let'ssee. Blacks are 8 times more likely than whites to commit the crime of robbery. FACT. Facts don't care how you feel about them.
That's probably a lie not fact. Capitalization doesn't change that. The "fact" you are referring to is: In America a black person is 8 times more likely to be convicted for the crime of robbery than a white person.
Equal opportunity is a great wonderful thing. I hope it never goes away.
But real corporations don't think that way - not out of altruism, but simple this-quarter-ism. The kind of long term vision required for that sort of conspiracy theory just isn't to be found around the modern company
We are talking about a pharmaceutical company that spends billions of Euro every year on R&D to get patent protection for a couple of products for the next 17 years. You are living in a fantasy world.
Do not look at the results. Ignore that Eurpe has better and cheaper healthcare than the US of A. Stick to your dogma. It always tells you what is right and what is wrong. Do not look at the results.
Actually it's the same as it always was: just the stupid pipe dream of "copy-protection". It will fail like it always has. Nothing to see here. Move along.
The competitor can't just clone your product instantaneously. If you invent you get a couple of months head start over the competition. You then use the time it takes them to clone your product to innovate some more and your competition will always play catch up. If you seize to inovate you lose your edge.
It's also Google's choice. No one is forcing them to offer their services to EU citizens. If they don't want to comply with our laws they can simply stop offering their services to EU citizens. I'm sure someone else will fill that gap pretty quickly.
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Data backup is only a tiny fraction of disaster recovery scenarios. Cold or even hot standby systems in remote data centers are somewhere between best practice and mandatory dependeing on county and business branch. A local (
I'm Serbian btw, you did same here (in Yugoslavia).
Listen, rich liberal American
Your opinions might be influenced by your reading comprehension.
The plural of anecdote is not data. If you are looking for evidence you should have a look at Steven Pinker's work on the history of violence, e. g. here: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/pinker07/pinker07_index.html:
The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon, visible at the scale of millennia, centuries, decades, and years. It applies over several orders of magnitude of violence, from genocide to war to rioting to homicide to the treatment of children and animals. And it appears to be a worldwide trend, though not a homogeneous one.
It is true that the "rest of the world" is not living in absolut peace. It is also true that the human race has never been as peaceful as it is today. And to add another meaningless anecdote: In some countries the imbeciles that lust for war even have to resort to fighting war on plants and abstract concepts to get their fix.
Stop saying that there is a mass extinction going on. That's not just a lie, but an absurd lie and one that put actual mass extinction events to shame.
Current extinction rates are pretty hard to meassure. We don't even know for sure how many species there are on earth. Our best guess / estimation is that the present rate of extinction is somewhere between 70 and 700 species per year. The fossil records of the 5 previous mass extinctions suggest that this rate ist comparable to these mass extinction (we don't know the extinction rate of these any better than we can guess the current rate).
Extinction happens every day, for one reason or another. Some we caused, and that's right. but do you really think we're the only species to extinguish one, or two, or a hundred species?
Background extinction happens at rate of 1 to 10 species are year; that is at most one species per month, not "every day". More details can be found at http://www.well.com/~davidu/extinction.html. You'd be suprised!
If McCain had prevailed the Democrats would have been an opposition against the erroding of civil liberties. I'm not convinced that a McCain preidency would really have been worse.
I have read that Zimmerman specifically targeted blacks for watching. E.g. http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/trayvon-martin-shooter-a-habitual.html [miamiherald.com]
This lie has already been debunked a couple of times in this thread. Where does the linked article state that he "specifically targeted blacks"?
Does it make his actions acceptable to you?
Of course not. But the point ist: you are a fucking idiot for instigating racial tensions with your stupid lies.
Exactly. One of the main reason for buying a Prius seems to be conspicuous conservation
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Dark Energy is the repulsive force that they speculate is causing us to drift apart
While technically true, that's kind of a wag the dog view of the universe. We observe that all the other galaxys are not only flying away from us, they are getting faster. According to our current understanding of nature this acceleration must be caused by some kind of force and this force must be "fed" by some kind of energy. We call this energy "dark energy". It's not a speculation that dark energy causes the acceleration, it is the definition of the phrase "dark energy".
Dark Matter is about 100% certain, but Dark Energy is closer still to a hypothesis.
The situations for dark matter and dark energy are practically the same. The visible matter doesn't cause enough gravity to hold galaxys together. Again, according to our current understanding of nature there must be another source of gravity other than visible matter. We call this source of gravity "dark matter".
Both, dark matter and dark energy are "speculative" in the same way. Both start with relativity as our current model of gravity. We know that relativity is wrong, i. .e. it's predicition contradict observations but it's the best model we got so far. If somebody comes up with a better model for gravity than relativity and that new model doesn't require dark energy or dark matter to make correct predicitions then we can remove both from our models.
Every 9-1-1 operator will tell people not to engage.
And why do you think they do this? Do you see any connection between this case and the advice the operators give?
Suspicious activity are common calls. [...] Asking someone what they are doing there is completely legal. Period. End of discussion. The fact you imagine that is somehow a sign of wrong doing is beyond insane.
Walking down the street while black is completely legal. Period. End of discussion. The fact you imagine that is somehow a sign of wrong doing is beyond insane.
Talk about reality distortion field set to maximum.
Indeed.
it wasn't some rival gang member
Rival gang implies that the guy who was shot is a gang member himself. That must be true because he was black and all black kids are gang members, right?
Nulla poena sine lege. I wasn't arguing that. I was just nitpicking that the particular consequence you mentioned ("If you're a company and you do exactly the same thing but nothing goes wrong you're excused from this law.") is in fact not a bad thing at all.
If you're a company and you do exactly the same thing but nothing goes wrong you're excused from this law.
So? Only people that actually cause damage are charged and punished. What's wrong with that?
Right. Why in Gods name shouldn't they kill peopole if it makes them money? Killing people to make more money is just a good business decision and everyone who doesn't kill people for money is a stupid communist hippie nazi, right?
So you're saying the poor guy just has no other choice than to rape woman, punsh them in the face, enslave them, torture them, and rent them out to other victims of society?
Let'ssee. Blacks are 8 times more likely than whites to commit the crime of robbery. FACT. Facts don't care how you feel about them.
That's probably a lie not fact. Capitalization doesn't change that. The "fact" you are referring to is: In America a black person is 8 times more likely to be convicted for the crime of robbery than a white person.
Equal opportunity is a great wonderful thing. I hope it never goes away.
When did it start?
But real corporations don't think that way - not out of altruism, but simple this-quarter-ism. The kind of long term vision required for that sort of conspiracy theory just isn't to be found around the modern company
We are talking about a pharmaceutical company that spends billions of Euro every year on R&D to get patent protection for a couple of products for the next 17 years. You are living in a fantasy world.
Do not look at the results. Ignore that Eurpe has better and cheaper healthcare than the US of A. Stick to your dogma. It always tells you what is right and what is wrong. Do not look at the results.
So, h.264 has been tested in court and found to not infringe on anyone else's patents then? Thought not...
Stop trolling.
Actually it's the same as it always was: just the stupid pipe dream of "copy-protection". It will fail like it always has. Nothing to see here. Move along.
The competitor can't just clone your product instantaneously. If you invent you get a couple of months head start over the competition. You then use the time it takes them to clone your product to innovate some more and your competition will always play catch up. If you seize to inovate you lose your edge.
Which means you are not working for the TSA.
They can't bribe their way out of complying with China's laws. Might be different in the EU.
It's also Google's choice. No one is forcing them to offer their services to EU citizens. If they don't want to comply with our laws they can simply stop offering their services to EU citizens. I'm sure someone else will fill that gap pretty quickly.
Of course not. But if you are comitting acts of war you are fighting a war.